Mon Mohapatra
Mon Mohapatra
Articles by Mon Mohapatra
How ‘Alternatives to Incarceration’—Like Probation—Expand Criminalization
In September, an Iowa judge sentenced Pieper Lewis, a Black teenager who was trafficked and sexually assaulted, to community supervision after she pleaded guilty to stabbing one of her abusers to death. Some hailed the sentence as compassionate. But facts about supervision say otherwise.